R d laing biography sample
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R. D. Laing
Unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927–1989)
Ronald David Laing | |
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Laing in 1983, perusing | |
| Born | Ronald David Laing (1927-10-07)7 October 1927 Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland |
| Died | 23 August 1989(1989-08-23) (aged 61) Saint-Tropez, France |
| Known for | Medical model |
| Spouse(s) | Anne Hearne (m. R d laing biography sample1952–1966) |
| Children | 10 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychiatry |
Ronald David Laing (7 October 1927 – 23 August 1989), usually cited as R.
D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness—in particular, psychosis and schizophrenia.[1]
Laing's views on the causes and treatment of psychopathological phenomena were influenced by his study of existential philosophy and ran counter to the chemical and electroshock methods that had become psychiatric orthodoxy.
Laing took the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as